Nebraska · Private foundation
The Hawks Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $33M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 141
- Grants FY2024
- 184
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,949,615
- Organizations funded a year
- 80 to 207
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $413M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations The Hawks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 136 | $33M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 184 | $27M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 149 | $25M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 80 | $1.9M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 207 | $23M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joslyn Art Museum | $24,554,984 | 5 | 51% |
| Community Alliance Foundation | $10,106,000 | 5 | 53% |
| Omaha Public Library Foundation | $6,135,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Child Saving Institute Inc | $4,189,480 | 5 | 28% |
| Downtown Riverfront Trust | $4,000,000 | 2 | 53% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $3,446,439 | 4 | 1% |
| Omaha Community Playhouse | $1,685,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Museum of Nebraska Art | $1,505,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Omaha Zoo Foundation | $1,200,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Nebraska Philanthropic Trust | $1,140,000 | 2 | 7% |
Show all 184 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 218 recipients with no EIN on record ($31M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Hawks Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 166 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to The Hawks Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Hawks Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About The Hawks Foundation
- How much does The Hawks Foundation give?
- The Hawks Foundation reported 141 grants totaling $32,624,070 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 80 and 207 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Hawks Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Philanthropy (20%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Hawks Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Joslyn Art Museum ($25M), Community Alliance Foundation ($10M), Omaha Public Library Foundation ($6.1M).
- Does The Hawks Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hawks Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hawks Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.
- Where is The Hawks Foundation based?
- The Hawks Foundation is based in NE.
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